Preparatory Education Centres can provide girls in remote tribal areas with access to quality education, in a joyful and loving environment. From these centres poor tribal girls are enabled to join the mainstream schools, achieve higher education and become self-reliant.
Access to education for girls is limited in remote tribal villages. Only 12 per cent tribal girls of Bengal can pursue high school education due to: high level of child marriages; domestic labour and economic pressures; the communities do not accord value towards girls' education; unfavourable school environment. Baradrone Social Welfare Institution (BSWI) runs Preparatory Education Centres (PECs) and mainstreams such girls in 128 villages of West Bengal to achieve higher education.
BSWI provides adequate coaching, extra-curricular activities and health care to the girls who are enrolled in mainstream schools. We ensure that the girls can successfully complete their school-tasks. This enables the girls to be graduated to upper classes and attain higher education. The mothers are also trained in nutrition and are mobilized to provide the girls a friendly environment and encourage them.
The project will ensure higher education for 85 tribal girls allowing them to be self-relliant and receive due recognition from the community. The marginalized tribal community will also experience their girls' well-being and they will be the 'agents of change' in the remote rural set-ups.
